I like the idea of putting 'survival' in there somewhere. Like, "Surviving in post-apocalyptic London"

Cheers,
Steve

1962 the world ended. 1963 your story begins.

Struggling for survival in post-apocalyptic London - who do you trust?

Hot War: Living amongst the fallout
(cos it can mean nuclear and friendships)

Any help?

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JoE
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Prince of Darkness Games
Rock N' Role-Play....

Rebuilding Horror-torn London one traitor at a time.

The Kingdom is Dead. Long Live the Kingdom

It started in Berlin, it ends with rat stew

As Europe Burns, London Prevails

I'll ask the gang on Thursday when we do char gen

Neil

Take the King's shilling at http://www.omnihedron.co.uk/dutyandhonour/

Thanks for all the suggestions, do feel free to keep them coming.

"Living amongst the fallout" strikes a chord with me, but I also need to integrate something more descriptive, giving an idea of what the game is about. The survival stuff is good as well. Not so sure about rat stew! Heh.

So:

Hot War
Living amongst the fallout
+10 word descriptive tag

God, I should be better at this!

Cheers
Malc

Contested Ground Studios

For some reason the grin tag I added got gobbled by the messageboard...

I feel your pain. For some reason having the 'M' word in my job title makes people think that I am a 24/7 creative dynamo that should be able to produce 'stuff' from concept to product in about oh, the time it takes to down a pint. The number of times I hear people say 'But, you work in Marketing? Surely ....' before some incredulous shock that I cannot instantly 'produce' stuff. Gah! What makes it worse still is that I'm a 'marketeer' (god, I hate that word) with pretty ingrained left-wing leanings which causes all manner of conflict!

It'll come.

Neil

My first go is "Trust and survival in the wreckage of London."

I think the historic angle is crucial, though. swinging London is the right general idea but it's the wrong reference - London never gets to swing in the hot war setting.

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a.k.a. morgue

For some reason I've now got 'Streets of London' stuck in my head, particularly the line "Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London" I think the phrase 'Streets of London' has a strong emotional impact, mostly due to that song. Maybe it could be used to your advantage? Sorry, I've never been very good at tag lines.

Ash

Streets of London does have a nice set of connotations.

"Trust and survival in the ruined streets of 60s London" might work, though is lengthy.

-Matt

Realms Publishing

John Wilson came up with...

Hot War: London's Burning.

...and my effort is...

Hot War: 1963, London in ruins.

Could there be some tie in or reference to the Great Fire (1666) as its in keeping with the 60's theme.

"This time the fire won" type stuff.

If you've got friends and traitors, something about Burning Bridges (within relationships and the physical ones)? "The only bridges left standing in London are those you're going to burn..."?

With the fear/xenophobia aspect you could probably get some good mileage from checking out old propaganda or looking for an Orwellian quote.

There's probably something of the phoenix aspect to the feel too? Rising a new world from the ashes, cast in your own image?

G.

(dumb) The Swinging Sixties started with a bang - that could be heard all the way to Hell...

(sensible) Trust and Fear in the fallout of a hellish war

Portray the Sixties-ness in the style of the cover, shouldn't be hard I think. Hey, got a logo yet? Paul?

Shevaun

Though of course we all consider the 1960's to be the "Swinging Sixties" the game is set in 1962-63 UK, which is VERY different than the later sexual revolution charged 1966 onwards. Lets just say the swing wasn't quite there yet.. at all infact.

Swinging Sixties means to most people Beatles, free love etc. I think you run the risk of disallusioning people with a tagline with Swinging in it into thinking it's going to be a very different game setting. Unlike the Cold City tagline which tells you everything and is quite accurate. 1962 Britain has more in common with the post war 1950's than it does with the later "swinging" sixties.

A Very British Apocalypse.

London Endures, Will you?

Hot War - a book of Dangerous things to do for Boys and Girls

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Dom Mooney
http://www.bits.org.uk/
http://www.powerprojection.net/

You could go with many lines from the Clash's London Calling but I'm thinking of something a bit like the intro to Fallout:

Radio noise, a touch of morse code and an RP voice, "This is London calling... Please answer"

That doesn't really work for text though.

In '62, the door into horror was opened in Cuba.
In '63, in all that is left of London, you decide who lives and dies.
Hot War.

Life during Wartime.

Trust and betrayal since the bombs fell.

Trust and betrayal since hell opened.

Bombs fell, hell opened, London endures.

I feel I have to quote John Wilson here, its not Hot, and it's not a War, so why Hot War?

I mean the War is over, London isn't hot, in either temperature or fallout. I know it's a play on Cold City, but maybe a different title would have an easier tag line?

http://www.solipsist-rpg.com/

'How can a war end if you don't know who the enemy is?'

'There are worse enemies than the Soviets'

'Why don't you come in from the Cold?'

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Dom Mooney
http://www.bits.org.uk/
http://www.powerprojection.net/

Hi David,

The name is more of a play on 'Cold War' than 'Cold City' (which is in itself a play on 'Cold War'). There have been a lot of references to the Cold war 'going hot', i.e.: kicking off the nukes. Which is why I chose 'Hot War' as the title. The Cold War has gone hot (in the sense of becoming an actual war, in the sense of nukes, in the sense of the heat of battle, etc) within the setting, even though the event itself is in the past. There's also a certain amount of irony inherent in the title: it is by default set in a wintry, cold London, where low-level conflict continues as people try to rebuild. So, the idea of it being a 'hot war' is both ironic and horrific.

To summarise, the title refers to the 'hot war' that caused the current situation and it is also an ironic reference to the situation in the present of the game.

That, at least, is my reasoning for the name.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions about taglines and so forth. I'm mulling it over at the moment and doubtless something will emerge from the simmering brain stew.

Cheers
Malc
Contested Ground Studios

Thanks Malcolm, it does make sense, but I find it interesting that you are naming the game after events that are now over in game terms, rather than what is currently going on.

is that because you see the game as being all about the consequences of that event and how the characters deal with it in the aftermath?

http://www.solipsist-rpg.com/

Indeed, that covers a big chunk of it. People are living within the consequences, rather than taking part in the events that caused the situation. If that makes any sense at all.

Cheers
Malcolm

Contested Ground Studios